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Bible Verses About Friendship
Bible verses about friendship — loyalty, encouragement, walking together.
16 verses · curated by hand
Ruth 1:16
"Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God."
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In chapterProverbs 17:17
"A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity."
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In chapterProverbs 27:17
"Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance."
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In chapterMatthew 7:12
"Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets."
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In chapterJohn 15:13
"Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends."
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In chapterEcclesiastes 4:9
"Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor."
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In chapterGenesis 2:18
"Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”"
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In chapterProverbs 18:24
"A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."
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In chapterEcclesiastes 4:10
"For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up."
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In chapterGalatians 6:2
"Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ."
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In chapterEphesians 4:29
"Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear."
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In chapter1 Thessalonians 5:11
"Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do."
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In chapterHebrews 10:24
"Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,"
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In chapterHebrews 10:25
"not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching."
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In chapterFrom the wider Bible
More verses about friendship in Scripture
125 passages mentioning “friend” across WEB & KJV — beyond the curated set above.
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Proverbs 19:6
“Many will entreat the favor of a ruler, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.”
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Proverbs 19:7
“All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.”
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Proverbs 22:11
“He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.”
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Proverbs 22:24
“Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:”
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Proverbs 27:6
“Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.”
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Proverbs 27:9
“Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.”
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Proverbs 27:10
“Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.”
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Proverbs 27:14
“He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.”
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Song of Solomon 5:1
“I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.”
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Song of Solomon 5:16
“His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem.”
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Song of Solomon 8:13
“You who dwell in the gardens, with friends in attendance, let me hear your voice!”
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Isaiah 41:8
““But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,”
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Jeremiah 3:20
““Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says Yahweh.”
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Jeremiah 6:21
“Therefore Yahweh says, “Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend shall perish.””
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Jeremiah 9:4
““Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.”
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Jeremiah 13:21
“What will you say, when he shall set over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? Shall not sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail?”
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Jeremiah 19:9
“I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them.”’”
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Jeremiah 20:4
“For Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself, and to all your friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall see it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall kill them with the sword.”
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Jeremiah 20:6
“You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house shall go into captivity; and you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.’””
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Jeremiah 20:10
“For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.””
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